The president was slow to respond to the coronavirus, and now many of his followers are choosing to ignore CDC recommendations on safety.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Douglas Rooks: Centralized authority has its limits
Pitting public health against “economic sustainability” doesn’t answer the important questions before us.
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Commentary: We must save lives at risk from COVID, new nuclear arms race
Encourage our U.S. senators to sign on to an extension of the New START Treaty.
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Maine Voices: Let’s look at numbers, science while we open up our state
Maine’s CDC director and governor have kept us safer than almost any other state, a car dealer says, and they’ll reopen us to business just as safely.
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George Smith: Books to quarantine by
It’s a good time to pull your favorite books from the shelves.
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Maine Voices: Bold action on COVID testing is needed to get people back to work
A Nobel Prize-winning economist’s proposal – test essential workers daily, test the rest of us every two weeks – sets up a framework for gathering the data we need to make a decision
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The Maine Millennial: Postal Service may become a COVID casualty
We are in danger of losing an institution enshrined in our Constitution that offers a service that no private company would provide.
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Doyle McManus: Coronavirus is the great unequalizer
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The View From Here: Rolling the dice with COVID
Science will only give you part of the answer to the question of how much risk are you willing to accept.
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Maine Voices: Small nonprofits trying to map out survival strategy in summer of COVID
‘Stay home – but send us your money’ is the message being perceived by the seasonal returnees whose donations enable essential services in Maine year round.